Make no mistake Michael Cambell is the king of union busting and was one of the founders of Ford & Harrison. So far at Delta they've been successful to win EVERY representational election outside of the pilots and dispatchers (who have been unionized for quite some time). In the late 90s the Simulator Instructors succeeded in joining TWU but after a few years were forced to de-certify because Delta was making their life a living hell (straight from the mouth of the TWU International President).

If I was a pilot at Delta i'd want the reps to all vote YES to allowing the group to vote on the TA. After all, shouldn't the membership decide? Voting YES to send the TA to the membership isn't endorsing the TA it's saying the membership should decide.

Now, if it gets to you guys I would hope that you get the answers to EVERY possible scenario that could take place if the TA is ratified. This business of having a TA 7 months before the amendable date isn't just unusual...it's UNHEARD of. Unless management is planning something big. Find out what the "big" is and make sure it doesn't harm your group.

That's just my cents.

Btw: Alaska just named a new CEO http://www.nasdaq.com/article/brad-t...20120515-00580
Just something to think about

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You mean because Pancho was thought to be rather ugly? Otherwise, it's a poor comparison. Pancho was trying to let pilots do what Campbell is trying to do to pilots.

Its asinine to sell more jobs just to give a few extra percent to a small group (and that's all it is) that will retire under this contract. Screw the profession even more, which is supposedly why some need the money now...because it got screwed before, to get a little more money and then be even weaker when everyone else (the vast majority of the list) is a dead zoner. Nice try. How about we sell top end scope, which is probably worth a lot more, to get a bigger bottom end raise. Majority rules, right? Profession be damned, we need money in our pockets today by any means necessary!

Oh we pay, just not by the hour. We pay a flat rate of half our stuff every 5-10 years. :cool:

Where Lee staggers is that he can't help but add the second, gratuitous paragraph.

I see his point in 1, but he completely fails in 2. Whay? Because any contract that doesn't work for the entire group is a failure. We may not get as much as we thought, but whatever we get, we better get it together.

The path to a contract will be based on people deciding that the value of the bird in the hand is worth enough, not based on the fact they got to screw someone else. I didn't see anything in the NNP that harms deadzoners, and you can't argue with a straight face that Scope is simply an RJ problem.

FWIW, even with the set backs, they did better than the "Angry F/O knitting club" will. Even at the end of the parade they were year two upgrades to Express, then enjoyed the wave of the early retirements. It can pretty safely be assumed how those votes will go.

Yep.... The likes of Stagger Lee got 5 more years in the left seat. I got 5 more years of reserve narrowbody FO.

Nice photo. :p

Well I meant the previous one.

He has bad teeth though.........:D